.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 301 129
Rank change year-on-year +12 -172 +32
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 481 410 1,874
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.05% 2.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.01% 5.33% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 450 352 1,775
10th Percentile £44,875 £40,062 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,669 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +5.51% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,998 7,691 16,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.90% 19.74% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,048 5,682 14,134
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,177 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -51 125 £55,000 -8.33% 46
London -62 87 £82,500 +3.13% 61
South East +1 81 £60,000 +14.29% 48
Midlands -10 75 £62,500 +19.05% 27
North West -15 67 £55,000 -8.33% 24
East of England +24 53 £90,000 +67.44% 28
East Midlands +14 53 £65,000 +23.81% 11
South West -21 53 £52,500 -22.22% 14
North East -24 37 £65,000 +44.44% 9
West Midlands -45 22 £60,000 +1.69% 16
Yorkshire -65 21 £55,000 -8.33% 14
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.66%) IIS
3 3 (0.62%) CMS
4 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Magento
2 1 (0.21%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 313 (65.07%) Azure
2 90 (18.71%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (18.30%) AWS
4 48 (9.98%) GitHub
4 48 (9.98%) SaaS
5 45 (9.36%) Azure Logic Apps
6 44 (9.15%) Serverless
7 40 (8.32%) Power Platform
8 28 (5.82%) Azure AI
9 26 (5.41%) GitHub Copilot
10 23 (4.78%) Power Automate
10 23 (4.78%) PowerApps
11 22 (4.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (4.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 20 (4.16%) Azure Functions
13 20 (4.16%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (3.95%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
14 19 (3.95%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.66%) Internet
2 2 (0.42%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.21%) AMQP
3 1 (0.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.21%) Modbus
3 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (31.60%) SQL Server
2 125 (25.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 80 (16.63%) MongoDB
4 35 (7.28%) Power BI
5 27 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
5 27 (5.61%) NoSQL
6 20 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.70%) MySQL
8 10 (2.08%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.66%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.46%) Redis
11 4 (0.83%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.62%) GIS
13 2 (0.42%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
14 1 (0.21%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (9.56%) Git
2 7 (1.46%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.25%) JIRA
3 6 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.62%) Vite
6 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.42%) GitLab
6 2 (0.42%) MSTest
6 2 (0.42%) NUnit
6 2 (0.42%) webpack
7 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.21%) Selenium
7 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 74 (15.38%) Finance
2 51 (10.60%) Social Skills
3 22 (4.57%) Games
4 15 (3.12%) Banking
5 12 (2.49%) Advertising
6 11 (2.29%) Retail
7 10 (2.08%) Law
8 9 (1.87%) Automotive
8 9 (1.87%) Front Office
9 8 (1.66%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (1.46%) Marketing
11 6 (1.25%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.04%) Legal
13 4 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.62%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.42%) Back Office
15 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.42%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 361 (75.05%) Developer
2 197 (40.96%) .NET Developer
3 125 (25.99%) Senior
4 107 (22.25%) Software Developer
5 78 (16.22%) Senior Developer
6 74 (15.38%) C# Developer
7 54 (11.23%) Lead
8 53 (11.02%) C# .NET Developer
9 49 (10.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 46 (9.56%) Software Engineer
11 30 (6.24%) Lead Developer
12 28 (5.82%) Senior Software Developer
12 28 (5.82%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (5.41%) .NET Software Developer
14 23 (4.78%) .NET Software Engineer
14 23 (4.78%) Applications Developer
15 21 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (4.16%) Azure Developer
16 20 (4.16%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 20 (4.16%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 481 (100.00%) .NET
2 194 (40.33%) ASP.NET
3 111 (23.08%) ASP.NET Core
4 101 (21.00%) React
5 92 (19.13%) .NET Framework
6 89 (18.50%) HTML
7 86 (17.88%) CSS
8 85 (17.67%) Entity Framework
9 79 (16.42%) RESTful
10 72 (14.97%) Blazor
11 65 (13.51%) Vue
12 64 (13.31%) AngularJS
13 48 (9.98%) ASP.NET Web API
14 45 (9.36%) Node.js
15 34 (7.07%) REST
16 29 (6.03%) JSON
16 29 (6.03%) LINQ
17 28 (5.82%) ML.NET
18 26 (5.41%) ASP.NET MVC
19 21 (4.37%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.82%) Greenfield Project
3 18 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 12 (2.49%) Sports Betting
6 11 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.29%) Hedge funds
6 11 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.66%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.46%) Digital TV
9 6 (1.25%) 3D Graphics
9 6 (1.25%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.25%) Social Network
10 3 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.62%) iPhone
10 3 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.70%) VMS
2 7 (1.46%) Windows
3 5 (1.04%) Linux
4 3 (0.62%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (42.20%) Full-Stack Development
2 171 (35.55%) Agile
3 137 (28.48%) CI/CD
4 121 (25.16%) DevOps
5 105 (21.83%) Software Engineering
6 87 (18.09%) Microservices
7 59 (12.27%) MVC
8 55 (11.43%) Containerisation
9 50 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (10.19%) SDLC
11 48 (9.98%) Machine Learning
12 45 (9.36%) AI
13 43 (8.94%) OO
14 40 (8.32%) Multithreading
14 40 (8.32%) User Experience
15 38 (7.90%) Business Intelligence
16 37 (7.69%) Analytics
16 37 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
17 36 (7.48%) Clean Code
18 35 (7.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 430 (89.40%) C#
2 243 (50.52%) SQL
3 137 (28.48%) JavaScript
4 93 (19.33%) TypeScript
5 39 (8.11%) PowerShell
6 18 (3.74%) Python
7 12 (2.49%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (2.49%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.25%) Bash
9 4 (0.83%) Bicep
9 4 (0.83%) Java
10 3 (0.62%) PHP
11 2 (0.42%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.21%) C++
12 1 (0.21%) F#
Qualifications
1 33 (6.86%) Degree
2 15 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.87%) AWS Certification
4 8 (1.66%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (1.46%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.42%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.12%) QA
2 6 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.42%) GDPR
3 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.42%) ITGC
3 2 (0.42%) SLA
4 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (20.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 84 (17.46%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.82%) Terraform
3 2 (0.42%) Ansible
Vendors
1 197 (40.96%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.95%) Adobe
3 11 (2.29%) Facebook
4 10 (2.08%) Google
5 6 (1.25%) YouTube
6 5 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (0.83%) Workday
8 2 (0.42%) Apple
8 2 (0.42%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.42%) Foundry
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle
8 2 (0.42%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.42%) Sony
8 2 (0.42%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.21%) IBM
9 1 (0.21%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.21%) Reuters
9 1 (0.21%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.21%) Splunk